Funny ATC

[FL000]

0100 on Chicago center.

Chi Center: Learjet 12345, cleared direct Arapahoe.

12345: Learjet 12345 direct Arapahoe.

a couple of minutes pass;

12345: Center, Learjet 12345, where's Arapahoe?

Chi Center: (laughing), Sir, it's your destination!

That reminds me of the time I was cleared from Ft. Worth Meacham direct to a set of lat/longs on the east coast, then direct destination. I hastily scribbled down the numbers, having to ask for one repetition for clarity. Not understanding why I got the clearance that way, I was tempted to call him on it, but just pulled out the charts and started trying to find the coordinates. After about 5 minutes narrowing my search, I finally found the spot...directly on top of my destination airport.

I was within seconds of this post going to the "idiotic radio calls" thread.

 

[Typhoon1244]

Still not sure if the controller meant to transmit this or not...a Challenger is receiving vectors to Houston/Hobby, and there were a lot of storms in the area, so there was a lot of tight maneuvering involved:

Challenger: "Sir, are you aware our destination is Intercontinental?"

Approach: "They've got you in here for Hobby."

Challenger: "No sir, should be Intercontinental."

Approach: "Okay, Challenger Four One Kilo, turn left to...uh...well...well, sh!t, turn left heading two four zero."

 

[Cleared Direct]

One stormy night going into SHV we were holding for the thunderstorm to pass over the field. There were 3 of us holding and monitoring the SHV approach frequency. AirLink had been holding the longest so they were the first ones to attempt an approach. The wx was still bad but there appeared to be enough of a break to attempt a safe approach before the next wave came. We asked Airlink to relay his ride and wx info to the tower to pass on to approach for us after AirLink switched over to the tower frequency. The name of the locator outer marker on that approach is CRAKK.

SHV Approach: "Hey Delta and Eagle, uhh Airlink says he is getting a bad ride and is inside CRAKK and it does not look good."

We started laughing so hard I could not fly anymore. We responded back that we would continue to hold longer while laughing at the same time. He then realized what was so funny and started to laugh also.

SHV Appraoch: "Delta state your intensions."

Delta: "I don't see us getting anywhere close to CRAKK tonight, we are close to bingo fuel can you change our destination to DFW."